GWR 360 Class

GWR 360 Class

Type and origin Power type Steam Designer Joseph Armstrong Builder GWR Swindon works Build date 1866 Total produced 12

Specifications Configuration 0-6-0 Gauge 4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Fuel type coal Cylinders two

Career Operators GWR

The GWR 360 Class was a small series (12 examples) of 0-6-0 freight steam locomotives designed for the Great Western Railway by Joseph Armstrong and built at Swindon Works in 1866.

Numbering

They were numbered 360-369, 1015 and 1001.

Design

As built, they had slightly smaller boilers than the similar and much more numerous 388 Class which went into production later the same year. Their coupled wheelbase was also two inches shorter than that of the 388s.

Use

To start with they worked between Birmingham and Chester, though later they were seen in South Wales, at Didcot and in the Birmingham-Stourbridge area. They were withdrawn between 1918 and 1933, the last (No.363) having accumulated in its 70 years an impressive 1,384,645 miles.^[1]

References

1. Tabor 1956, pp. D56-D57.

Sources

• Tabor, F. J. (February 1956). White, D. E., ed. The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part four: Six-wheeled Tender Engines. Kenilworth: RCTS.